Using interest money for victims in Turkey and Syria
Q: Can I use interest money for victims in Turkey and Syria?
Writing the word Allah with a small ‘a’
Q: Is it okay to write Allah’s name with a small ‘a’ with no intention of disrespect?
Performing salaah in a room with a TV
Q: Can salaah be read in the same room in which there is a TV if the TV is switched off at salaah time? Does the position of the TV matter? Can Islamic frames be hung in the lounge when there is a TV in that lounge?
Calculating zakaat on trading stock
Q:
1. Is zakaah payable on trading stocks?
2. How do you calculate it?
Muslim floristry business running specials on Valentine's Day
Q: If one runs a floristry business, are you allowed to sell to people intending to purchase for Valentine’s Day gifts although not celebrating Valentine’s Day personally but running specials to the public for Valentine’s Day?
Access Bars therapy
Q: Is Access Bars therapy permissible? It is also known as EFT Bars.
Consuming multivitamins that have the ingredient shellac
Q: Is it permissible to consume multivitamins (vitaforce) that have the ingredient shellac?
Parents paying for child's kaffarah of an oath
Q: As for the kaffarah for the oaths, is it permissible to feed 20 people one meal instead of 10 people 2 meals?
For a baligh child that is not earning and living with parents, can he fast as a kaffarah or will his parents have to give it on his behalf?
Clarification: Will the Vat amount be included in the zakaat?
Q: A person gave me R100 of his zakaat and asked me to buy a zakaat hamper and give it on his behalf to the poor. I bought the hamper for R100 which was inclusive of 15% vat and thereafter gave it to a recipient of zakaat. Did R85 of the person's zakaat get discharged or did R100 of His zakaat get discharged?
Similarly, if zakaat vouchers are given to the poor and they make purchases with it from a specific shop to which zakaat money has been given, and the shop owner has been informed that he should give the poor who come to him items to the value of the zakaat vouchers, and the shop owner sells them the items for the full amount of the zakaat vouchers but deducts 15% of the money for vat, will the full amount of the zakaat vouchers be regarded as the zakaat discharged or will the amount less 15% be regarded as the zakaat discharged?
Hazrat Israeel (alaihis salaam) having a group of angels to remove the souls of people
Q: I'd like to know if Hazrat Israeel (alaihis salaam) takes the souls of people from around the world simultaneously by himself or does he have help from other angels.